Dunblane
Event Details
Location:Dunblane Hydro Hotel,Dunblane, Perthshire
Date: Monday 17 March 2008
Time: 9.30am - 3.30pm
Overview
The purpose of the meeting will be to launch the NHS QIS Health Technology Assessment (HTA) on Service delivery organisation for acute low back pain. The objectives of this HTA were to consider the clinical and cost effectiveness of service delivery models for the management of acute low back pain which utilise different triaging referral models and to assess the impact of various parameters on a service delivery model to optimise its clinical efficacy and cost effectiveness. This HTA focused on non-specific acute low back pain, where it was possible to distinguish this condition in the supporting literature.
An overview of the work and its main findings/implications will be given by Professor Gordon Waddell, Orthopaedic Surgeon and member of the NHS QIS HTA Topic Group. Nia Taylor, Chief Executive of BackCare UK, will give a presentation on the key patient issues associated with this most common condition. Management issues from the perspective of the GP and Physiotherapist will also be presented.
The afternoon will focus on the forthcoming National Clinical Audit of physiotherapy management of low back pain. There are approximately 1,000 referrals made to NHS physiotherapists in Scotland per month of people suffering low back pain problems. Recent guidelines from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, together with those from other validated sources, will be used to undertake a national audit to establish current management, suggest national standards and local improvement plans and subsequent re-audit. This project will start in April 2008 and will run for one year.
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Physiotherapists/physiotherapy services interested in taking part in the audit should send their contact details to Doreen Pedlar at Doreen.Pedlar@nhs.net.